@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp1276,
            	author={Basu, Swati and Estrin, Saul and Svejnar, Jan},
            	title={Wage Determination under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe},
            	year={2004},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={1276},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1276},
	abstract={Using large firm-level data sets from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, we show that the wage behavior of firms changed considerably as these economies launched
their transitions to a market system. We find evidence of worker sharing in their enterprise rents and losses at the end of the communist period in some economies and within a year after the launching of the transition, we find rent sharing in all of them. Using the Czech and Slovak data we show that the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that existed under communism and survived allow for less worker rent-sharing than other firms. We also test for the presence of a wage curve and with the exception of Slovakia we do not find a significant
association between local unemployment and wages. Finally, we do not find significant effects of firm ownership on wages.},
	keywords={wages;rent-sharing;transition economies},
            }